Quote Originally Posted by ilisol23 View Post
There is also a fully free program for extracting rar files that can be found at download.com. The program is called 7-zip and is one of the most commonly used rar and zip extraction programs in the IT community. As far as the vids are concerned, have you got VLC set as the default player for avi?

yeah 7-zip will also work I was just too lazy to install it 6 months ago when I had to reinstall windows.

since we are talking about compression programs for people to install we should also post a bit of a warning.

some compression software can cause problems with installer files. If you find that you get errors when trying to install a program saying the installer is corrupted check your compression software prefs. The prefs will list what file types that will be opened using the compression software remove the check for .CAB file type and retry your installer

In some cases the compression software will set itself to handle a file type it doesn't always play well with.

I won't bash any programs on here so just keep that in mind as a possible issue.